Cologne (deu)

Cologne

Cologne ranks 94th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Baghdad, Kyoto, and Bologna. Memorable people born in Cologne include Jacques Offenbach, Konrad Adenauer, and Heinrich Böll. Memorable people who died in Cologne include Albertus Magnus, Nikolaus Otto, and Pope Gregory VI. Cologne has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and religious figures. Cologne is located in Germany.

Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left (west) bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35km southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22km northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. Read more on Wikipedia